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- From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Next?
- Message-ID: <1658@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 19:04:30 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.133858.6071@linus.mitre.org>
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- In article <1992Dec17.133858.6071@linus.mitre.org>, m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
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- |> What is next?
- |>
- |> talk.origins: On the evolutionary side, homo sapiens is seen as merely the most recent
- |> step in a series of rungs in a ladder. What do you see as the "next rung"?
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- There is no next rung because there *are* *no* *rungs*.
- Evolution is *not*, I repeat *not* a ladder, it is a mucking great *bush*.
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- Humans are not even the most recent species to evolve. There are several new
- species that have evolved in historical times.
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